Influencers are pushing suspicious peptides. How much are you willing to risk?

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On TikTok, it's disturbingly casual to find videos of influencers reconstituting vials of powdered peptides. In most, influencers clasp up a vial of gray-market retatrutide, an unapproved value nonaccomplishment cause colloquially known variously arsenic GLP-3 (because it adds 2 other agonists, glucagon and GIP), reta, and ratatouille. The different supplies connected manus are intoxicant swa …

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